One of the lesser-known single from Whitney Houston's early career. "So Emotional" is a song recorded by American pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston . The song was the third single from her second album Whitney , and was released on November 12, 1987. "So Emotional" was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly , who also penned Madonna 's " Like a Virgin ", Cyndi Lauper 's " True Colors ", Heart 's " Alone ", and The Bangles " Eternal Flame ", all of which reached #1 on the charts. The song centers on [...]

THE BANGLES - HAZY SHADE OF WINTER (DREAMTIME MIX) (MEDIAFIRE link due to server limitations) !!!REPOST!!! Hi Everybody! I got a repost of an older DreamTime Mix for you today. It's the 1987 single Hazy Shade Of Winter by American band The Bangles . You can find the original version of this track on their album Greatest Hits . I [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List MCA There are plenty of musicians who find the days of the week endlessly inspiring. The Beatles loved you for all eight days of them. Barenaked Ladies measured a fight in terms of one week. Loverboy sagely noted that we were all working for the weekend. Other musicians get even more specific, choosing to sing about one day in particular. Every day -- [...]

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade. In the spring of 2009, the Bangles returned to the studio to begin work on a new album. During an interview with Music Geek Media in May 2009, Debbi Peterson indicated that the album was in the early stages of production. The album is called Sweetheart of the Sun and was released on September 27, 2011. They are touring in support of it, with dates on the East Coast, Midwest, and West Coast. Openers for the various [...]

The three women who make up veteran LA garage-popsters The Bangles these days - Susanna Hoffs and sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson - still wanna rock it out, garage style. The Bangles have a new release called " Sweetheart of the Sun " and they are touring this LP while playing the songs that fans remember from their 1980s heyday. The Bangles hit the big time in the 1980s with smash new-wavey hits like "Walk Like an Egyptian", "a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "A Hazy Shade of Winter", the Prince-penned "Manic Monday" [...]

Happy Wednesday ... ► M83 and Anthony Gonzalez soar into the Music Box behind their new album "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming." Active Child opens the sold-out show. ► The Bangles visit the House of Blues behind "Sweetheart of the Sun," their first album in eight years. ► Army Navy brings the bright guitar pop on its new album "The Last Place" to the Bootleg Theater, with Kiev supporting. ► Bay Area-bred, Iceland-based Low Roar , the newproject from Ryan Karazija of Audrye [...]
Ready to get your 80's on this week? If you want to "Walk Like An Egyptian", then House of Blues Sunset Strip is the place for you! The Bangles will be performing there on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at the West...
Sorry for the absence of this here column last week; I got hit with an acute case of tonsillitis which definitely killed my Monday pretty badly. Felt like I was swallowing razorblades....but the good news is that it got me to the doctor to get some killer horse-pills to clear my junk up, so I [...]
During their initial run in the 1980s, The Bangles were labeled by some critics as a poor man's version of the Go-Go's. It seemed unfair to me. After all, hadn't their three albums – 1984's All Over the Place , 1986's Different Light and 1988's Everything – produced poppy, progressively commercial tracks such as "Hero Takes a Fall," "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame"? And hadn't Prince himself been so impressed by "Hero" that he wrote the popular "Manic Monday" for the second album? The Bangles had their own sound; the only [...]
THE BANGLES, A FRAGILE TOMORROW ( Roseland , 8 NW 6th) The beloved Bangles recently appeared on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast—and they sounded FANTASTIC. Susanna Hoffs & Co. haven't lost a bit of their harmonious, sugary sounds. While their new songs from Sweetheart of the Sun are lovely, it's 1986's Different Light that'll get your hazy shade of nostalgia walking like an Egyptian. COURTNEY FERGUSON REAL ESTATE, BIG TROUBLES, CHARLES BERLITZ'S THE LITTLEST [...]
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Although The Bangles started out as an indie pop band associated with Los Angeles' Paisley Underground scene in the early 1980's, it didn't take the band long to make major commercial inroads. ... Continue reading "The Bangles' Vicki Peterson Talks Breaking Up, Getting Back Together and Singing in the Nude" >

Break out your frosted jeans and zubas ladies and gentlemen, Dancing With The Stars rolls back to the 80s! Get your bottomless bottle of hairspray, your loud leg warmers, and a special recap for week five right here. With an 80s rewind theme in full swing, the remaining contestants were ready to rock, but first, special guests from The Bangles performed a collection of their greatest hits to kick off the show, and lemme tell you, they've still got it. But [...]
With their first album in eight years, the Bangles are back in a big way.

Today's topic: pop hits -- or songs that should have been. Katy Perry and Rihanna can rack up No. 1 singles in their sleep. Between them, they've had 16 in the last six years. But the leading ladies of pop haven't always had it so easy. Here are five of the most egregious examples currently in heavy rotation on my iPod. 1) Susanna Hoffs: "My Side of the Bed" Considering how hot the Bangles were in the late '80s, one might have expected the 1991 debut solo single from the band's lead singer to have [...]
Guest blogger Clea Simon reports on the Bangles' show a the Wilbur Theater on Tuesday night; Time, time, see what's become of them. . . . Thirty years may have passed, but as amply proven on... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

It's been thirty-one years since Susanna Hoffs, Debbie Peterson, Vicki Peterson and one-time Runaways bassist Michael Steele (and, damn, they still look good! Milf alert!) formed as The Bangles (Steele left the band in 2005). Susanna Hoffs' girlishly delicate but strong soprano reflected the rebellious, sometimes pretentious often fun mood of the time. "Walk Like An Egyptian" was a near-instant anthem. They also hit big with "Manic Monday" and "Hazy Shade of Winter," two Prince-penned songs. The Bangles had the definitive X factor and are now claiming their well-paved blip on 20112s musical radar with Sweetheart of The Sun [...]
I was really thrilled to interview the lovely Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles. We talk about the new album ( Sweetheart Of The Sun ) of course and yes there will be a new Sid & Susie album, Under The Covers, Vol.3 coming out soon. I ask her about Prince, Dhanni Harrison, Susan Cowsill and other interesting things including a possible Bangles boxset in the future. I tried to squeeze in everything and she was very personable.

And no one's more surprised about that than me. The Bangles have a new record, which drops today. You can get it at all the usual places, plus there's a single streaming at MTV's Hive. Recorded with Matthew Sweet, Sweetheart of the Sun is supposed to be a return to the folkier Bangles, leaving aside their foray into mainstream pop in the mid-80s. While Sweetheart finds the group covering two Nuggets-era garage rock tracks, lead single "I Will Never Be Through With You" recalls the delicate melodies of the Byrds and Big [...]